Asteroid Hunt
Develop an approach for characterizing the composition of asteroid for mining potential and a process for mining different compositions. Explore a possible division of labor involving different types of vehicles (e.g. sensor units, drilling units, power gathering and distribution, extracted resources handling and transferring). Consider solutions for moving said asteroids between different orbits and/or consequently make periodical adjustments to keep them in place. Analyze how your idea would cope in some of the given scenarios or outline a scheme of your own.
We developed a system that enables us to bring small asteroids into earth orbit and then onto earth for mining and experimenting purposes. The system consists of a space shuttle in LEO ready to bring back any spotted asteroid. At the time an asteroid less than 10 meters in diameter passes at a distance less than the distance from earth to the moon, a different space craft is launched to rendezvous with the asteroid and use micro-spines gripper to attach to the asteroid and then after a certain time calculated for the second rendezvous with the LEO space shuttle, a thrust vector is applied by the spacecraft to create a delta V maneuver that transforms the orbit into a Hohmann transfer orbit to rendezvous and dock into the space shuttle which will be ready to reenter the atmosphere and land the whole asteroid on earth in the first controlled asteroid hunt in the history of humanity.
Solid Works- STK
http://www.braeunig.us/space/planet.htm
https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/publications/Aaron_Parness/Parness%20ICRA.pdf
https://arxiv.org/ftp/astro-ph/papers/0509/0509595...
